Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your report of the Munich Bach Festival [July 5] mentions two ways of playing Bach: 1) the rigid, as-written style; 2) the free, "swinging" style used by Karl Richter, Landowska and others...
...ecumenical movement has slowed in the face of continued differences over fundamental issues of faith. Potentially most serious of all for the WCC is the emergence of "underground churches," in which growing numbers of Christians worship in far-out manners and modes that represent a revolt against the more rigid religious superstructure of the World Council...
...only play in the canon to take place entirely in one location. And it is maddeningly rigid and sym-metrical in structure--less a drama than a formal and artificial Elizabethan pavane (in a couple of years he would wisely loosen up his predictable precision when he undertook the similarly structured As You Like...
...13th century, when Robert de Sorbon, founder of the Sorbonne, compared examinations in his college to the Last Judgment, and contended that the men who graded them were "much more severe than the judges in heaven." Today the long drawn-out trial is compounded of inadequate facilities, rigid rules, distant administrators, dogmatic and unapproachable professors. Trapped in an archaic system, French students live a one-dimensional life that is virtually restricted to matters of the mind. There are few diversions from duty, no athletic teams or fun-centered weekends, almost no extracurricular activities. Days and nights are occupied with grinding...
...squabbles have never been concerned with the principle of desegration but with its pace. Two years ago, Floyd McKissick replaced Founder James Farmer because he was not moving fast enough. Last week McKissick, in turn, was supplanted by a more aggressive lieutenant. CORE's new chief, however, advocates rigid separation of the races...